adding: it's amazing how you've incorporated all these quirky things into them-- Sam and her figure, Lissa and her voice, Kit and his flip-flops and his awesome, Pear with her-- crazy touchy-feelyness, but they're still entirely their own persons. but it doesn't seem so far-fetched that they would actually end up this way in real life.

(and i am so happy that you made "becketts-- into saportas" a genetic trait. i am so sure.